Ice maker repair in San Diego County.

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• 4S RanchBetween 1847 and the turn of the century, the land of 4S Ranch was grazed heavily by sheep and longhorn cattle.
• Black Mountain RanchBlack Mountain Ranch is reached mainly by Camino Del Sur, Carmel Valley Road, San Dieguito Road and Camino Del Norte.
• BonitaIn the 1990s a desalination plant opened to treat water from wells along the Sweetwater River, and a later expansion added a pumping station in Bonita.
• CarlsbadIn 1842 the southern part of what is now Carlsbad was granted as Rancho Agua Hedionda to Juan María Marrón.
• Carmel Mountain RanchKnown locally as CMR, Carmel Mountain Ranch has the San Diego community of Sabre Springs as its neighbor to the south.
• Chula VistaIn January 1916 the Lower Otay Dam collapsed in the Hatfield Flood, flooding the Otay River valley at Chula Vista and killing up to fifty people.
• Del Mar MesaDel Mar Mesa has Torrey Highlands and Rancho Peñasquitos on its eastern side and Torrey Hills on its western side.
• EastlakeChula Vista later took over the Olympic Training Center in Eastlake and renamed it the Elite Athlete Training Center, with the Olympic Committee paying rent to keep using it.
• EscondidoEscondido's name may come from agua escondida, "hidden water," though another account says it meant "hidden treasure."
• KensingtonThe owners of Kensington Park persuaded the San Diego Electric Railway to extend its Adams Avenue trolley line into the subdivision in time for its opening.
• La MesaLa Mesa preserves the old spring house of its La Mesa Springs in Collier Park.
• Mission HillsFrom 1910 to 1939 the San Diego Electric Railway's Fort Stockton line ran streetcars to Mission Hills, which still shows the pattern of a streetcar suburb.
• North CoastalTwo coastal North County water agencies, the Santa Fe Irrigation District and the San Dieguito Water District, jointly own the R.E. Badger Filtration Plant, which SFID operates for both.
• North InlandEscondido, Vista and San Marcos are the incorporated cities of inland North County, which also takes in numerous unincorporated areas.
• Otay RanchOtay Ranch was planned on some 23,000 acres of east Chula Vista, alongside Eastlake, Millenia and Rancho del Rey, on land annexed east of Interstate 805 and State Route 125.
• PowayPoway's name likely comes from a Kumeyaay word meaning either "arrowhead" or "watering hole."
• Rancho BernardoRancho Bernardo sits about 20 miles north-northeast of downtown San Diego, and its plant life runs from chaparral and coastal sage scrub to freshwater marsh.
• Rancho PeñasquitosResidents often shorten Rancho Peñasquitos to "PQ," and Mira Mesa and the canyon preserve border it on the south.
• San DiegoThe Kumeyaay village of Kosa'aay held thirty to forty families and was supported by a freshwater spring in the hillsides.
• San MarcosIn the north Twin Oaks Valley of San Marcos, a homesteader named Merriam claimed 160 acres and started producing wine and honey.
• Scripps RanchE.W. Scripps and his half-sister Ellen Browning Scripps bought 400 acres of today's Scripps Ranch, 30 of them for his home and grounds.
• South / CentralThe South Bay runs from San Diego Bay east to the Otay Lakes, and a few creeks carry water from the eastern mountains to the bay, the ocean or the Tijuana River estuary.